INTRODUCTION:
What does HRM mean by industrial relations? A collaborative academic discipline called “industrial relations” (IR) studies how employers and workers, labor and trade unions, employer organizations, and the government interact in the workplace. It also covers employment arrangements that are “non-industrial”. IR examines a range of employment scenarios, but particularly those involving unionized employees.
What function does a trade union serve? Unions play a significant role in labor relations by guaranteeing workers’ jobs and securing fair compensation. Union negotiators offer higher wages in exchange for employees’ acceptance of monotonous job designs or hazardous working conditions. The importance of unions in providing insurance and guarantees to employees’ job positions, including job stability, adequate pay, job design, retraining and reskilling, and health care
Course Objectives
By the end of the Industrial and Labour Relations & Labour and Trade Union Training Course, the participants of this course will be able to:
- Encourage and cultivate amiable labour management relations
- Enhance the monetary condition of the worker by upgrading wages, benefits and advancing a sound budget
- Standardize production by curtailing industrial conflicts through state control
- Entertain industries by crafting the government as an employer
- Ensure workers have a say in the decision-making process
- Promote and inspire trade unions to increase the worker’s concentration
- Prevent industrial conflicts and their penalties
- Develop and preserve industrial democracy
- Understand the modifications and fashions in industrial relations
- Examine the role of trade unions in evolving economic-political situation
- Understand labour laws and modern changes in labour laws
- Explore and enable leadership styles to enforce labour laws and jurisprudence
- Fathom fundamental as well as procedural contents of Industrial Relations Law
- Recognize Social Security Legislation
- Build an insight into the Wage Law
- Understand the law relating to contract labour
Organisational Benefit
Organisational Benefits of employees who participate in Industrial and Labour Relations & Labour and Trade Union Training Course will be as below:
- Structural principles and rights to create greater opportunities for employees to secure adequate occupation
- Provide psychological safety to employees
- Improved tripartism and social discourse
- Collaboration between Employers, Employees, Administrators, and Supervisors
- Procedural discussion with Contract/Agreement/Policy and Administration
- Exposure to grievance presidency, collective bargaining, mediation, scrutiny, and negotiation
- Access to labour and management conferences and associations
- Resolve informal conflicts between labour and management
- Gain insights on the data requirements of union
- Trained management and administration
- Develop mechanism to manage cooperative society, labour statistics, ensure occupational safety
- Provide advisory services & training and develop independent employers’ and workers’ organization
Personal Benefits
Participants who enrol in this Industrial and Labour Relations & Labour and Trade Union Training Course will benefit in the following ways:
- Encourage and appreciate criteria and fairness
- Establish accords between the zenith association(s) of unions and management
- Set standardized pattern, high intensity of union absorption and centralized bargaining
- Ensure unbiased wage bargaining
- Safeguard cordial relations between workforce and management
- Ensure legal interpretation in the enactment of labour rules
- Understand and interpret labour law and regulations
- Recommend substantial resource and confirm industrial peace
- Support effective communication system, manage changes
- Drop in actions like lockouts, strikes, protests, etc.
- Guarantee organisation stability, effectiveness, and permanence
Who Should Attend?
HR Leaders and Managers, HR & IR Experts, OD and Independent consultants, Union leaders, IR professionals
Course Outline
Below is the course outline and the modules that would be covered during the Industrial and Labour Relations & Labour and Trade Union Training Course:
Module 1: Introduction to Industrial and Labour Relations & Labour and Trade Union
- What is Labour relation and trade union?
- Industry, labour, and trade union
- Importance of trade union
- Difference between Labour relation and trade union
Module 2: Scope of Industrial Relations
- Labour relations, i.e., between labour union and administration
- Employer-employee relations
- The role of different parties: – employers, employees, and state in maintaining industrial relations
- Handling conflicts between employers and employees
Module 3: Factors of Industrial Relation
- Institutional factors:
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- government policy
- labour legislations
- voluntary courts
- collective agreement
- employee courts
- employers’ federations
- Social institutions
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- caste
- joint family
- creed
- system of beliefs
- attitudes of works
- systems of power status
- Economic factor
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- economic organization
- capitalist
- communist mixed etc
- the structure of labour force
- demand for and supply of labour force
- Technological factors
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- mechanization
- automation
- rationalization
- computerization
- Social and cultural factors
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- population
- religion
- customs and traditions
- ethnic groups
- cultures
- Political factors
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- political system in the country
- political parties and their ideologies
- mode of achievement of policies
- involvement in trade unions
- Governmental factors
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- industrial policy
- economic policy
- labour and export policy
Module 4: Aspects of Labour Relations
- Legal/constitutional compliances
- Labour relation management
- Trade/labour union dealing and prevention
- Labour grievance management
Module 5: Trade Unions in Transformation
- What are power resources?
- Utilizing power resources and improving abilities
- Components of power in the hands of workers and their unions
- Workers interest in shifting economic and political condition
Module 6: Fundamentals of Labour Laws for Trade Union Leaders
- Significant elements of Industrial Relations Laws and Trade Unions Act
- Industrial Employment (IE) Act and Industrial Disputes Act
- Aims and characteristics of social security laws including Employee Compensation Act
- Employee Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act
- Payment of Gratuity Act and laws concerning to wages
(Can be customized based on Industry/ region)
Module 7: Aspects of Labour Movement
- History and revolution
- Economic protection for its members
- Extending industrial democracy
- Moral and spiritual reform
- Antisocial, damaging monopoly
Module 8: Measure to Strengthen the Trade Union
- Harmony
- No political influence
- Educating labours
- Funds Adequacy
- Welfare activities for labours
Module 9: Purpose of Trade Union
- Supervision of relations
- Settlement of grievances
- Introducing new requirements on behalf of workers
- Collective bargaining and negotiations
Module 10:Â Process of Labour Relation
- Unionization
- Dispute or conflict condition
- Collective bargaining/ negotiation
- Settlement of contract
- Agreement processing
Module 11: The Theory of Bureaucratic Management by Max Weber
- Elevated division of labour and specialization
- Well-defined hierarchy
- Rationality, Objectivity and Consistency
- The formal and impersonal relations. The power of position vs. individual
- Guidelines and regulations
- Obligations and privileges of the workers
- Guidelines applicable to, and complied by everyone
- Recruitment and Growth depend on technical skills
Module 12: FAQ’s, Case studies and Discussions
- Participate in role plays to ensure first-hand learning
- Opportunity to meet industry veterans, Q&A discussion
- Discuss and review policies that are relevant (Group activity)
- In-depth knowledge of laws and regulations
Method of Instruction
Online
Course Duration:
5 days
Type of Certificate Issued:
On a successful completion of this training, Participants will be issued
Certificate in Industrial and Labor Relations & Labor and Trade Union Training Course
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Participants can choose to have their certificate in any of the three options below:
- Digital Certificate (Downloadable (PDF)
- Physical Certificate with security marking shipped to your location with a price
- Framed Certificate with security markings shipped to your location with a price.
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